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UrbanDictionary.com :
3. teabagger 356 up, 118 down

A person who believes that wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on war and tax cuts is okay and that criticizing the president automatically makes you an anti-American traitor, but only if the president is a white Republican. If the president is a black Democrat, it's suddenly okay to brandish assault weapons at his rallies, call him a communist socialist Marxist racist Nazi terrorist nigge...whoops, Muslim. Teabaggers are typically obese inbred southern WASPs who are still upset that they lost the Civil War. Most of them can't spell worth a damn and think "nuclear" is pronounced "nookyular". Despite what they say, 99% of teabaggers are white and Republican.

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It’s not too surprising that teabaggers consider “teabagger” a slur on the order of the N-word, but think “libtard” is simply a descriptive term commonly used in the English language, like “pretty” or “delightful.” But, as pointed out by Crooks and Liars, “The origin of the term is relevant in determining the relative size of the Tea Party’s violin. What wasn’t pointed out to Tapper is the fact that the Tea Partiers not only invented the term, they did so in order to inflict a similar double entendre onto the President, the Democrats, and liberals in general. Hence, it’s a violin so small, you need an electron microscope with a zoom lens to see it.”

Try to stay with me on this, ‘baggers: You whine about being called teabaggers, and yet you invented the term. As the conservative publication, National Review, pointed out, “The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was ‘Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.’ A protester was spotted with a sign saying, ‘Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.’ So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology.”

Yeah, you did. And you knew what it meant at the time that you did it – except, at that time, you meant it to apply to liberals and Dems and anyone left of your hard, hard right positions. Imagine your shock and embarrassment when this term you gleefully coined was turned on you. Watch me play the world’s smallest violin.

LadyJazzer wrote:

UrbanDictionary.com :
3. teabagger 356 up, 118 down

A person who believes that wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on war and tax cuts is okay and that criticizing the president automatically makes you an anti-American traitor, but only if the president is a white Republican. If the president is a black Democrat, it's suddenly okay to brandish assault weapons at his rallies, call him a communist socialist Marxist racist Nazi terrorist nigge...whoops, Muslim. Teabaggers are typically obese inbred southern WASPs who are still upset that they lost the Civil War. Most of them can't spell worth a damn and think "nuclear" is pronounced "nookyular". Despite what they say, 99% of teabaggers are white and Republican.

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It’s not too surprising that teabaggers consider “teabagger” a slur on the order of the N-word, but think “libtard” is simply a descriptive term commonly used in the English language, like “pretty” or “delightful.” But, as pointed out by Crooks and Liars, “The origin of the term is relevant in determining the relative size of the Tea Party’s violin. What wasn’t pointed out to Tapper is the fact that the Tea Partiers not only invented the term, they did so in order to inflict a similar double entendre onto the President, the Democrats, and liberals in general. Hence, it’s a violin so small, you need an electron microscope with a zoom lens to see it.”

Try to stay with me on this, ‘baggers: You whine about being called teabaggers, and yet you invented the term. As the conservative publication, National Review, pointed out, “The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was ‘Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.’ A protester was spotted with a sign saying, ‘Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.’ So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology.”

Yeah, you did. And you knew what it meant at the time that you did it – except, at that time, you meant it to apply to liberals and Dems and anyone left of your hard, hard right positions. Imagine your shock and embarrassment when this term you gleefully coined was turned on you. Watch me play the world’s smallest violin.

You picked it...You did so thinking you would use it against the Dems, and it blew back on you. You OWN IT...

"Watch me play the world’s smallest violin."

And I'll repost this as necessary to remind the 'baggers where it came from, and who picked it.

ScienceChic wrote: I'm glad you asked PrintSmith. We've had this discussion before about the term teabagger (sorry, I tried putting in the links, but it's another one of the forbidden action glitches we need to fix yet - do a Search for teabagger, author ScienceChic, Courthouse forum and you'll find them. It's the 'In case anyone cares' thread pg 12, 'A new Board? Any interest' thread pg 5, and 'Racism alive and well' thread pg 2), as I'm assuming that is to what you are referring. Homosexual and racist slurs are starred out and generally the posts are left unless the rest of the content warrants being moved entirely to the Ring; posters are not banned for using the terms. Teabagger is not considered a homosexual or racist slur, it's a slang term for a sexual act.

We've always run this site with the understanding that everyone would be treated as adults. You are responsible for your content, we have a thread with tips on how to handle trolls and how to post so you are treated in kind, and if there's someone you don't like, put them on Foe so you don't see their posts. If you see something that you feel needs to be addressed, Report it and we'll review it. We have the option to turn off the word censor so you can see everything typed in it's original glory if that's what you wish, or you can leave it turned on so you see them automatically starred out.

That being said, we have modified how we operate on specific items based on member feedback, and I've asked before (in the links above) how everyone would like to proceed after explaining why we allow terms like teabagger and libtard. To date, the consensus has always been to not change moderating on language. Now, if you'd like to start a new poll and the consensus has changed, we are here to serve you and we'll start starring out those terms.